Owen Dix
Residential Faculty Member at Estrella Mountain Community College
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Dix is a Ph.D. physicist and residential faculty member in Phoenix with nine years of teaching and research experience bridging experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics. He specializes in scientific computing and data analysis, developing simulations and interactive demonstrations (notably in Glowscript VPython) and coding in Python, C++, Matlab, Perl and more. Owen has a strong track record of undergraduate instruction and course design at UC Davis and Maricopa Community Colleges, consistently high student evaluations, and hands-on lab experience with cryogenics and complex instrumentation. He combines rigorous numerical and algorithmic skills from quantum turbulence and superconductivity research with a passion for clear communication and critical thinking. Outside the classroom he actively maintains public code examples and physics visualizations, reflecting a practical focus on teaching computation through engaging, reproducible simulations.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Physics, 3.81 GPA, M.S., Physics, 3.81 GPA at University of California, DavisB.S., Physics, 3.97 GPA, B.S., Physics, 3.97 GPA at Northern Arizona UniversityPh.D., Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 3.83 GPA, Ph.D., Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 3.83 GPA at UC Davis
English
Github Skills (7)
interaction2
rapydscript2
python1
javascript1
browser1
animation1
3d1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
owendix/glowscript.org-VPython-Code
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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